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Canal Discharge Impacts on Biscayne Bay Salinities, Biscayne National Park.

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Date Issued:
1987-12
Summary:
Biscayne Bay consists of a number of shallow, interconnected, estuarine lagoons, bounded on the west by the Florida mainland and on the east by the upper Florida Keys. (See Figure 1.1.) Central Biscayne Bay extends from Rickenbacker Causeway in the north to Cutter Bank in the south and exchanges with the ocean through a number of tidal inlets. The more significant inlets are Bear Cut, Safety Valve, Caesar's Creek, Broad Creek, and Angelfish Creek. Depths in the interior of the bay vary from 2 to 4 meters.
Title: Canal Discharge Impacts on Biscayne Bay Salinities, Biscayne National Park.
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Name(s): Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1987-12
Publisher: United States. Department of Commerce. National Technical Information Service.
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 248 pages
Language(s): English
Summary: Biscayne Bay consists of a number of shallow, interconnected, estuarine lagoons, bounded on the west by the Florida mainland and on the east by the upper Florida Keys. (See Figure 1.1.) Central Biscayne Bay extends from Rickenbacker Causeway in the north to Cutter Bank in the south and exchanges with the ocean through a number of tidal inlets. The more significant inlets are Bear Cut, Safety Valve, Caesar's Creek, Broad Creek, and Angelfish Creek. Depths in the interior of the bay vary from 2 to 4 meters.
Identifier: AAC9341QC00010/10/200710/10/200711455Bnamzu D0QC (FCLAZ), FCLA url 20071010 (snx), FI07053109 (IID), 1038363 (digitool), fiu:21006 (fedora)
Note(s): Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Electronic version created 2007, State University System of Florida.
Subject(s): Estuaries -- Freshwater inflow
Estuarine ecology -- Florida
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI07053109.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI07053109.jpg
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Host Institution: FIU